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What's the legit scariest movie you've ever seen?

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rasczak said:
The Thing
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The original or the remake or the remake of the remake?

j/k good movie.

I thought The Others was well done. Very creepy. Also The Sixth Sense. But both are older flicks and if you have heard anyone talking about them... kind of ruins the suspense.
 
The Descent
Event Horizon

I don't watch horror very often though. It sounds like I need to watch Paranormal Activity.
 
shortylickens said:
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Sorry, but after a while this turned into What Is The Scariest Anything You seen in your life.
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Aww damn and I had a reply all ready 🙁 Good story anyway BTW. I'm pretty much as close to a pacifist, anti military in general really, as you can get but I salute those who serve.
 
The Gingerdead Man.

Srsly? I dunno... Event Horizon.

Edit: I see it's been mentioned.

Ugh. Paranormal Activity is terrible. I LOL'd right through it.
 
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Locut0s said:
The problem I have with most Horror films out there now is that they simply go for shock value either gore or loud noises (bump in the night) at times you aren't expecting them. It's not that I don't find these scary, maybe I do more than most, it's that I'm not really interested in being scared in this manner. IMHO it's all in the art direction and atmosphere. The few really good scary films out there manage to be scary in a much more subtle unnerving way. It's one thing to jump out of your seat when you hear a screech over the sound system with the gain on the volume turned up to 20, it's something else to be made to question your own sense of reality. The first is still scary but it's not really satisfying to me.
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Loud noises I consider "startling" and not scary. It's a cheap trick that's nearly guaranteed to work. It's laziness on the filmmakers part. I also dislike gore for the sake of gore. It's not scary, it's just blood and guts.

Paranormal Activity was a good scary movie. However, it relies on two things:
1) That you have a decent imagination. It gives ideas of creepiness and lets the viewers' imaginations fill in the blank with what THEY find scary, which is much more effective on a large scale than presenting someone with a vision of what the WRITER finds scary.
2) You believe in (or at lest think they could exist) ghosts, demons, etc. If you have a very, very strong disbelief in them, the movie will be lame.
 
Paranormal Activity freaked me out...a lot. The wife also had her head buried under the pillow for most of the film...
 
rudder said:
The original or the remake or the remake of the remake?

j/k good movie.

I thought The Others was well done. Very creepy. Also The Sixth Sense. But both are older flicks and if you have heard anyone talking about them... kind of ruins the suspense.
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Well, if you wanna be technical. You have 3 separate movies none of which are truly a remake.
The original is The Thing from Another World. Which is a movie based on the novel Who Goes There?
Then you have the John Carpenter 1982 movie The Thing. Which is not so much a remake as it is a different take on the same story and more accurate to the original. (Like how Last Man on Earth, Omega Man, and I Am Legend are all based on the same story).
Then the most recent The Thing, which is actually a prequel to the 1982 movie.

I consider the 1982 The Thing to be the best horror movie of all time.

Other great horror movies.
Alien
George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead
30 Days of Night (not all that scary, but a good monster movie and a good take on vampires)
The Evil Dead (the original is less campy than the rest in the series)
 
Atomic Playboy said:
I'm not big on horror movies, but one that definitely scared me the last time I saw it was Event Horizon. Actually, that may be the scariest movie I've ever seen. Granted, it's definitely more towards the gore side of the horror genre, but it's good at building tension and random "jump" moments.
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I came to post this
 
If you like anxiety, tension and suspense and not gore or surprises, my favorite is Below. Hardly anyone has heard of it but it is easily one of the best scary movies around IMO.
 
JAWS I saw it when I was 10 and scared the crap out of me. I like things that can really happen in real life. When that captain got eaten at the end as he slid down the boat is what did it to me.
 
The Exorcist. Something about the thought of demonic possession - likely the loss of control - freaks me out. Saw PA3 this weekend and the preview for "The Devil Inside" which looks like it could be even more creepy than The Exorcist.
 
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